M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia articles from July 2006

M A R G I N: life & letters in early Australia archives from July 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... In early July 1 flew to Perth to a Conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) called 'Spectres, Screens, Shadows and Mirrors'. I presented a paper on 'Fisher's Ghost' and John Lang. There were 115 papers...

The tragic exit for the poet of the stockwhip.(Barcroft Henry Boake)
July 1, 2006... Out on the wastes of the Never-Never That "s where the dead men lie That's where the heatwaves dance forever That's where the dead men lie Barcroft Boake One May day in 1892 a wood cutter was clearing scrub at a...

John Lang's first book signed by him.(John Lang Page)
July 1, 2006... John Lang's first novel Violet or the Danseuse was published in 1836 anonymously in London. I have written about the discovery of this book in my biography, John Lang Australia's Larrikin Writer. However Lang published a book under his own in...

Catherine Helen Spence.(Ever Yours, C. H. Spence Catherine Helen Spence's 'An Autobiography' (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910))(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Susan Magarey (ed) with Barbara Wall, Mary Lyons and Maryan Beams, Ever Yours, C. H. Spence Catherine Helen Spence's 'An Autobiography' (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910) (Wakefield Press, Kent Town S.A, 2005)...

The Sydney Harbour Bridge amazingly described: a 1788 prediction.('The Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove'- poem)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A poem written by Erasmus Darwin published in 1789 gave a description of the great city which would arise on the shores of the wonderful harbour. This poem is well known but less known is the description of the bridge which spans the harbour....

Henry Lawson's early start as a writer.
July 1, 2006... Henry Lawson is often considered to be the first truly Australian writer. His works have been reprinted many times and he is celebrated in a number of ways. There was at one time a Henry Lawson Society in Sydney and there is a bronze statue of...

The La Trobe Journal No. 70 2002.(Periodical review)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... A Henry Lawson issue edited by John Barnes This is an interesting issue of the La Trobe Journal for a number of reasons. Importantly it discusses Lawson's Melbourne Publisher T.C. Lothian in an article written by John Arnold and also an...

Drummoyne: a nineteenth century garden.
July 1, 2006... The Horticultural Magazine and Gardeners' and Amateurs' Calendar containing the Transactions of the Horticultural Society of Sydney, published in the 1860s contained descriptions of a number of Sydney Gardens. These accounts give a view of many...

ASAL Conference 2006.(Association for the Study of Australian Literature)(Conference news)
July 1, 2006... A report by the Editor The Association for the Study of Australian Literature held its annual conference in Perth at the beginning of July. Readers of Margin will not be surprised to hear that I gave a paper on John Lang at the Conference....

A new biography of sir James Martin.
July 1, 2006... James Martin was one of our earliest writers. He wrote a small book of Essays which was published by James Tegg in 1836 called The Australian Sketchbook. In it he wrote a series of articles about local scenes in New South Wales. He, like his...

A new biography of la Perouse.(Count Jean-Francoise de la Perouse, 'Where Fate Beckons')
July 1, 2006... Count Jean-Francoise de la Perouse has a special place in Australian History. A very short time after the First Fleet arrived in the isolated spot named Botany Bay the members of the fleet were astonished to see two ships sailing into the Bay....

The Mounted Butchers: Some Songs and Verses of Eureka.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... This is Number 10 of Hugh Anderson's Red Rooster Press 'Studies in Australian Folklore'. The music was edited by Stephen Huron. As Hugh Anderson notes at the beginning of this small publication : 'The material in the following pages is...

Fiction in Samoanische Zeitung: Pacific Books No 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Fiction in Samoanische Zeitung by Dirk Spennemann This book is a timely reminder that part of Samoa in the Pacific was a German colony before the first World War. The local newspaper The Samoanische Zeitung published fiction in its pages in...